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Canadians and then
The 2nd SS was not engaged in Normandy until July, and then at Caen against the British and Canadians, one hundred miles east.
The name for the Kalamazoo River was then known by Canadians and French as La rivière Kikanamaso.
The Soviet Team then humbled the Canadians by scoring the next four goals and winning 7 – 3.
Particularly since the 1960s, there has been some controversy concerning the 346 British and Imperial troops — including 25 Canadians, 22 Irish and 5 New Zealanders — who were shot for desertion, murder, cowardice and other offences during the war, some of whom are now thought to have been suffering from combat stress reaction or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (" shell-shock ", as it was then known ).
Next were the Catholic Germans, then a large influx of French Canadians during the 1870s and 1880s.
Ogdensburg has become a cross-border shipping center due to Canadians ordering goods on the internet and having them delivered to package receiving companies in Ogdensburg, and then driving to Ogdensburg to bring the items into Canada themselves.
Fellow Canadians Joe Thornton ( then of the Boston Bruins ) and Joe Sakic ( Colorado Avalanche ), who each wore the number 19 for their respective NHL clubs and who were now eligible to wear it for team Canada due to Yzerman's enforced absence, both refused the number out of respect for their injured countryman.
Since then, the style may be granted for life only by the Governor General to eminent Canadians who have not held any of the offices that would otherwise entitle them to the style.
Of the Prince, Lady Lisgar, wife of then Governor General of Canada the Lord Lisgar, noted in a letter to Victoria that Canadians seemed hopeful Prince Arthur would one day return as governor general.
" She claimed that it would only honour Canadians with international impact, saying " if it was truly for Canadians, then I think there would be more of a national bend to the whole thing.
As a consequence, the Canadians were ordered to continue north to Leonforte and then turn eastwards to Adrano on the south-eastern slopes of Mount Etna, thus abandoning the originally planned encirclement of Mount Etna using Route 120 to Randazzo.
At the time, Robert Gordon Robertson, then a member of the Cabinet Secretariat, opined that Canadians would not like the title King of Canada, as " most Canadians ... have not thought of themselves as citizens of either a republic or a monarchy.
However, the Government of Canada at the lead of then Finance Minister Paul Martin blocked the merger from occurring as not in the best interest of Canadians
* Toronto-Dominion Bank and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce announced merger however Paul Martin, then Finance Minister declared the merger void as not in the best interest of Canadians
The Canadians then agreed to bolster the 1st Special Service Force ( known as the " Devil's Brigade ") by allowing men to volunteer.
The Canadians then re-captured the championship in the third edition of the tournament in 1984.
" The same year, he applied to become a British subject, as Canadians then were.
The Canadians were then faced with the formidable German defensive positions on the Verrières Ridge, were the German SS troops had created excellent field fortifications and deployed hundreds of field artillery, Nebelwerfers and dug numbers of trenches and foxholes for defence.
The Second Army then commenced a dash across France in tandem with the Americans on its right, and the Canadians on its left.
Gordon Laxer presented a talk in which he questioned why Canada's oil exports were being used to guarantee US energy security, as opposed to Canada using its energy resources to provide for the security of Canadians first, and then others.
By the early 1950s, he owned 19 newspapers and was president of the Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Association, and then began his first foray into the British newspaper business by starting up the Canadian Weekly Review to cater to expatriate Canadians living in Britain.
Since then, EWB has replaced its mission statement with four outcome areas: Supporting rural African capacity, Advocating for improved Canadian policies toward Africa, Engaging Canadians to contribute and connect to Africa, and Helping the engineering profession serve global society.
McCallum said " Your first problem is that having lured hundreds of thousands of ordinary Canadians into income trusts by promising not to raise taxes you then cut them off at the knees.

Canadians and arrested
Canadians of other races who fish in the separate fisheries have been arrested, jailed and prosecuted.
By the next nightfall, more than 40 Canadians, predominantly Irish immigrants suspected of Fenian allegiance, had been arrested ; most prominent of these was Patrick Buckley, who served as the stable hand to Prime Minister John A. Macdonald, and who gave police the name of Whelan.
Zaynab has been involved in arranging support for other Canadians accused of militant actions in the War on Terror, notably attending the bail hearings and preliminaries for the accused men and youths arrested in Toronto in 2006.

Canadians and Confederate
Canadians were largely opposed to slavery, the preservation of which was one of the main goals of the Confederate States of America, and Canada had recently become the terminus of the Underground Railroad.
Confederate Connie informed the world of the USA's crimes against Mormons and Canadians.

Canadians and judge
Song number seven was written by Paul Curtis, performed by Duke and the Aces, a five piece group featuring Canadians and an Italian, Bruno Tonioli, also the act's choreographer, who would later go on to be a judge on Strictly Come Dancing.
Nevertheless, as a judge, Rand was a civil libertarian who struck down restrictive covenants that barred property from being sold or rented to Jews or non-whites, acknowledged the rights of Japanese Canadians who were being interned as enemy aliens during World War II, defended the rights to free speech of the Communist Party of Canada when it was banned by the Canadian government under the War Measures Act as well as the rights of Jehovah's Witnesses being persecuted under Quebec's Padlock Law.

Canadians and raid
The raid on Dieppe was widely considered a disaster, with casualties ( including those wounded or taken prisoner ) numbering in the thousands, the great majority of them Canadians.
This Fenian raid occurred during 1870, and the Canadians, acting on information supplied by Thomas Billis Beach, were able to wait for and turn back the attack.

Canadians and was
The holiday was initially not dominant in the national calendar ; up to the early 20th century, Canadians thought themselves to be primarily British, being thus less interested in celebrating distinctly Canadian forms of patriotism.
Although no cable company released data as to what such a monitoring service would cost, the end-result was that no cable company elected to carry the station, either, leaving many Arabic-speaking Canadians using free-to-air satellite dishes to watch the station.
* Fox News: Until 2004, the CRTC's apparent reluctance to grant a digital licence to Fox News under the same policy which made it difficult for RAI to enter the country-same-genre competition from foreign services-had angered many conservative Canadians, who believed the network was deliberately being kept out due to its perceived conservative bias, particularly given the long-standing availability of services such as CNN and BBC World in Canada.
He said he was displeased with the federal government's decision to allow United States missile testing in Canada and had wanted to " graphically illustrate to Canadians " how wrong he believed the government to be.
Taiko was embraced by Japanese Canadians to capture their culture and heritage.
The Act was also used to justify German, Slavic, and Ukrainian Canadian internment during the First World War, and the internment of German-Canadians, Italian Canadians and of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War.
On these trips, he sought to engage with Canadians through various ceremonies and events ; he was keenly interested in his role as Chief Scout of Canada, and, in preparation for his kicking of the opening ball in the 1946 Grey Cup final, practised frequently on the grounds of the royal and viceroyal residence, Rideau Hall.
Under this legislation, the federal government paid towards around 50 % of the cost of provincial health plans to cover “ a basic range of inpatient services in acute, convalescent, and chronic hospital care .” The condition for those cost-sharing legislation was that all citizens were to be entitled to these benefits, and by March 1963 98. 8 of Canadians were covered by Hospital Insurance.
In a poll conducted by Ipsos-Reid following the first prorogation of the 40th parliament on December 4, 2008, it was found that 51 % of the sample group thought the prime minister was directly elected by Canadians.
Following the 1919 Nickle Resolution, however, it was against non-binding policy for the sovereign to grant such honorific titles to Canadians ; the last prime minister to be knighted was Sir Robert Borden, who was premier at the time the Nickle Resolution was debated in the House of Commons.
His success was limited however, and his own wealth ( often openly displayed ) and impersonal style alienated many struggling Canadians.
Eddy match company, which was the largest safety match manufacturer in Canada, and he was one of the richest Canadians at that time.
" The Trade ", as it came to be known, upset Canadians to the extent that New Democratic Party House Leader Nelson Riis demanded that the government block it, and Pocklington was burned in effigy outside the Northlands Coliseum.
Gretzky himself was considered a " traitor " by some Canadians for turning his back on his adopted hometown, and his home country ; his motivation was widely rumoured to be the furtherance of his wife's acting career.
He reassured the pro-British Canadians that Parliament would surely decide that Canada would be at Britain's side if Great Britain was drawn into a major war.
On the other hand, he and his Quebec lieutenant Ernest Lapointe told French Canadians that Canada would only go to war if it was in the country's best interests.

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